The popular Hong Kong forum OMuser (Click here) just posted the first image samples of the Panasonic GH2 with firmware 1.0 (those are the very first image samples we found that are taken with the final firmware). They posted samples from ISO 200 until ISO 12.800. Images are pretty clean up to ISO 800!

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bilgy_no1

GH2 ISO samples look good until 1600, rather than 800. At 3200 there’s a little bit less detail, but still very clean. At 6400, banding shows up, but could be an emergency setting in shots without too many shadow areas. 12800 is not very useful imo. Very impressive results, but pity they weren’t able to fix the banding issue of the GH1 sensor.

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Clark

I would say iso3200 looks spectacular actually, as well as iso6400. Though you’re right there’s clearly a fair amount of banding at iso6400 and iso12800, I would say all iso’s are usable in a pinch.

Actually I can’t imagine a time when anything above 3200 was necessary, at that point it’s esthetically better to use a flash anyway. This is very promising…

Duarte Bruno

So, the scarlet whore showed more insight info than anyone else… :(

George

If you are using lightroom3 gh2 will perform very well. Since lr3’s noise reduction algorithm is amazing ISO3200 seems very usable with a little touch of LR3. I previously tested some firmaware 0.3 photos with lr3 and printed them on an A4 paper and results were very good.

I saw this too, there is no GH2 available for pre-order at Amazon nor is it even listed to find any information about the camera. I checked my preorder for the GH2 from September and it asks if I want to be be notified when it is available. what does it mean?

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